Thank goodness for the bodies ability to store memory and for the bodies ability to find ways in which to heal from those memories some of which are not so pleasant or easy to tolerate. I am am speaking of traumatic memory here - which involves procedural memory or the bodies memory of unconscious movements made in the face of physical or emotional harm. This has been the focus of our work this weekend in Connecticut where I am at training. This could be as complex as veteran who is thrown up into the air following a bomb blast in Iraq or a simple as a little girl gagging on her food because her mother is yelling at the dinner table. For the former I refer to an instance of a young man who developed a disabling body tic like Tourette's around the inability to orient himself while being thrown into the air. In our work with Somatic Experiencing we watched the founder Peter Levine help this young man slow the movement down so that it became less frozen. The latter refers to myself and my own issues around swallowing and eating too fast, which I'm realizing are now somewhat anxiety produced. This is powerful work and I am grateful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUnCj05RMs
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